API Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Design
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 370 418
Rank change year-on-year +21 +48 -72
Contract jobs citing API Design 36 74 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.36% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 34 66
10th Percentile £400 £379 £413
25th Percentile £445 £462 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +2.95% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £599
90th Percentile £688 £734 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.76
Median % change year-on-year - -46.78% -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +64.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +39 14 £445 -15.24% 12
South East +35 12 £600 -7.69% 9
North West +24 9 £550 -12.00% 9
Midlands +21 9 £480 -6.34% 7
East Midlands +21 8 £480 - 1
Yorkshire +18 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland +27 3 £463 -11.90% 3
West Midlands +14 1 - - 6
South West +1 1 - -
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) Apigee
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) DB2
1 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) Big Data
2 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.78%) OLAP
4 1 (2.78%) OLTP
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) gulp
2 2 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (16.67%) Banking
1 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Designer
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Lead Designer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (5.56%) Mobile Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) React
2 9 (25.00%) Node.js
3 6 (16.67%) .NET
3 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.89%) OAuth
4 5 (13.89%) RESTful
5 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.33%) Spring
6 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.33%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
7 2 (5.56%) Kafka
7 2 (5.56%) OpenID
7 2 (5.56%) React Native
7 2 (5.56%) REST
7 2 (5.56%) SAML
7 2 (5.56%) SOAP
8 1 (2.78%) J2EE
8 1 (2.78%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.11%) IoT
2 4 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Android
1 8 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Microservices
3 12 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (22.22%) API Development
5 7 (19.44%) Analytics
5 7 (19.44%) SDLC
6 6 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (13.89%) Project Management
8 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 4 (11.11%) ETL
8 4 (11.11%) Pair Programming
8 4 (11.11%) Security Testing
8 4 (11.11%) TDD
8 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Java
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) C
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.56%) PHP
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Grafana
1 3 (8.33%) Kibana
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Brio
3 1 (2.78%) Cognizant
3 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce